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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42622	The genuine epistles of the apostolical fathers, S. Barnabas, S. Ignatius, S. Clement, S. Polycarp, the Shepherd of Hermas, and the matyrdoms of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp, written by those who were present at their sufferings : being, together with the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, a compleat collection of the most primitive antiquity for about CL years after Christ / translated and publish'd, with a large preliminary discourse relating to the several treaties here put together by W. Wake ...; Apostolic Fathers (Early Christian Collection) English.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1693 (1693)	Wing G523A; ESTC R10042	282,773	752

from whence I am carried Bound to Rome being the least of all the Faithful which are there as I have been thought worthy to be found to the Glory of God Fare ye well in God the Father and in Jesus Christ our common Hope Amen To the EPHESIANS THE EPISTLE OF St. IGNATIVS TO THE Magnesians THE CONTENTS After the Salutation He declares Chap. I. THE Occasion of his Writing to Them and to the other Churches that were about them And then mentions II. The Arrival of Damas their Bishop and of the rest whom They had sent unto Him III. He exhorts them to all due Reverence and Subjection to their Bishop notwithstanding He was but a Young Man and had not long been in that Great Office among them IV. Which also they must do if they will be Christians indeed V. That we must all ' ere long Die and then be for ever either Happy or Miserable VI. He exhorts them therefore to live Orderly and to maintain a Unity among each other VII And that especially by a due Subjection to their Bishop and Presbyters VIII IX.X He cautions them against false Opinions Especially those of Ebion and the Judaizing Christians XI He Apologizes for this Advice which he gave not to Reprove but to Fore-warn Them XII Whose Faith and Piety he here greatly commends And XIII Exhorts them to go on and increase in Both. XIV He desires their Prayers both for Himself and his Church at Antioch XV. And then concludes all with the Salutations of those who were present with Him at the Writing of this Epistle THE EPISTLE OF St. IGNATIVS TO THE Magnesians IGNATIUS who is also called THEOPHORUS to the Blessed Church by the Grace of God the Father in Jesus Christ our Saviour In whom I salute the Church which is at MAGNESIA near the MAEANDER and wish it all Joy in God the Father and in Jesus Christ. I. WHEN I heard of your well-order'd Love and Charity in God being full of Joy I determined forthwith to speak unto you in the Faith of Jesus Christ. For having been thought worthy to obtain a most Excellent Name in the Bonds which I carry about I salute the Churches wishing in them a Union both of the Body and Spirit of Jesus Christ our Eternal Life As also of Faith and Charity to which nothing is preferred But especially of Jesus and the Father in whom if we undergo and escape all the Injuries of the Prince of this present World we shall enjoy God II. SEEING then I have been judged worthy to see you by DAMAS your most Excellent Bishop and by your very worthy Presbyters BASSUS and APOLLONIUS and by my Fellow Servant SOTIO your Deacon in whom I rejoyce forasmuch as He is subject unto his Bishop as to the Grace of God and to the Presbytery as to the Law of Jesus Christ I determined to Write unto you III. WHEREFORE it will become you also not to take advantage of the Youth of your Bishop but to yield all Reverence to Him according to the Power of God the Father As also I perceive that your Holy Presbyters do not considering his Age which indeed to appearance is Young but as becomes those who are Prudent in God submitting to Him or rather not to Him but to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Bishop of us All. It will therefore behove you with all Sincerity to obey your Bishop in Honour of Him whose pleasure it is that ye should do so Because he that does not do so deceives not the Bishop whom he sees but affronts him that is Invisible For whatsoever of this kind is done it reflects not upon Man but upon God who knows the Secrets of our Hearts IV. IT is therefore fitting that we should not only be called Christians but be so As some call indeed their Governour Bishop but yet do all things without Him But I can never think that such as these have a good Conscience seeing they are not gather'd together thoroughly according to Gods Commandment V. SEEING then all things have an End there are these two indifferently set before Us Death and Life And every one shall dedepart unto his proper place For as there are two sorts of Coins the one of God the other of the World and each of these has its proper Inscription engraven upon it So also is it Here The Unbelievers are of this World but the Faithful through Charity have the Character of God the Father by Jesus Christ By whom if we are not readily disposed to Die unto his Passion His Life is not in Us. VI. FORASMUCH therefore as I have in the Persons before mentioned seen all of you in Faith and Charity I exhort you that ye study to do all things in a Divine Concord Your Bishop presiding in the place of God your Presbyters in the place of the Council of the Apostles And your Deacons most dear to Me being intrusted with the Ministry of Jesus Christ who was with the Father before all Ages and appeared in the End to us Wherefore taking up the same Holy Course see that ye all Reverence one another And let no one look upon his Neighbour after the Flesh but do ye all mutually love each other in Jesus Christ. Let there be nothing that may be able to make a Division among you But be ye united to your Bishop and those who Preside over you to be your Pattern and Direction in the way to Immortality VII AS therefore the LORD did nothing without the Father being united to Him neither by Himself nor yet by his Apostles So neither do ye do any thing without your Bishop and Presbyters Neither endeavour to let any thing appear rational to your selves apart but being come together into the same place have one Common Prayer One Supplication One Mind One Hope in Charity and in Joy undefiled There is One Lord Jesus Christ than whom nothing is Better Wherefore come ye all together as unto one Temple of God as to one Altar as to one Jesus Christ who proceeded from one Father and exists in One and is return'd to One. VIII BE not Deceived with Strange Doctrines nor with Old Fables which are unprofitable For if we still continue to live according to the Jewish Law we do confess our selves not to have received Grace For even the Most Holy Prophets lived according to Christ Jesus And for this cause were they persecuted being inspired by his Grace to convince the Unbelievers and Disobedient that there is one God who has manifested Himself by Jesus Christ his Son who is his Eternal Word not coming forth from Silence who in all things pleased Him that sent Him IX WHEREFORE if they who were conversant in those antient Things are nevertheless come to the Newness of Hope No

dissemble thou shalt not be saved nor thy Children nor thy House Because thou hast judged that these Commands cannot be kept by Man IV. THESE things he spake very angrily unto me insomuch that he greatly affrighted me For he changed his Countenance so that a Man could not bear his Anger And when he saw me altogether troubled and confounded he began to speak more moderately and chearfully saying O foolish and without Understanding Unconstant not knowing the Majesty of God how great but withal how merciful he is who created the World for Man and hath made every Creature subject unto him and given him all Power that he should be able to overcome all these Commands He is able said he to overcome all these Commands who has the LORD in his Heart But they who have the LORD only in their Mouths and their Heart is hardned are far from the LORD To such Persons these Commands are hard and difficult Put therefore ye that are empty and light in the Faith the LORD your God and keep him in your Hearts and ye shall understand how that nothing is more easie then these Commands nor more pleasant nor more gentle and holy And turn your selves to the LORD your God and forsake the Devil and his Pleasures because they are Evil and Bitter and Impure And fear not the Devil because he has no Power over you For I am with you the Messenger of Repentance who have the Dominion over him The Devil do's indeed affright Men but his Terror is vain Wherefore fear him not and he will flee from you V. AND I said unto him Sir Hear me speak a few Words unto you He answer'd Say on A Man indeed desires to keep the Commandments of God and there is no one but what prays unto God that he may be able to keep his Commandments But the Devil is hard and by his Power rules over the Servants of God And he said He cannot rule over the Servants of God who believe in him with all their Hearts The Devil may strive but he cannot overcome them For if ye resist him he will flee away with shame from you But they that are not full in the Faith fear the Devil as if he had some great Power For the Devil tries the Servants of God and if he finds them empty he destroys them For as a Man when he fills up Vessels with good Wine and among them puts a few Vessels half full and comes to try and tast of the Vessels do's not try those that are full because he knows that they are good but tasts those that are half full least they should grow sowre for Vessels half full soon grow sowre and lose the Tast of Wine So the Devil comes to the Servants of God to try them They that are full of Faith resist him stoutly and he departs from them because he finds no place where to enter into them then he go's to those that are not full of Faith and because he has place of entrance he goes into them and do's what he will with them and they become his Servants VI. BUT I the Messenger of Repentance say unto you Fear not the Devil For I am sent unto you that I may be with you as many as shall repent with your whole Heart and that I may confirm you in the Faith Believe therefore ye who by reason of your Transgressions have forgot God and who company your Salvation with your Sins lead your Lives in Trouble that if ye shall turn to the LORD with your whole Hearts and shall serve him according to his Will he will give a Remedy to your Souls notwithstanding your former Sins and ye shall have dominion over all the Works of the Devil Be not then afraid in the least of his Threatnings for they are without force as the Sinews of a dead Man But hearken unto me and fear the LORD Almighty who is able to save and to destroy you and keep his Commands that ye may live unto God And I said unto him Sir I am now confirm'd in all the Commands of the LORD whilst that you are with me and I know that you will break all the Power of the Devil And we also shall overcome him if we shall be able through the help of the LORD to keep these Commands which you have delivered Thou shalt keep them said he if thou shalt purifie thy Heart towards the LORD And all they also shall keep them who shall cleanse their Hearts from the vain desires of the present World and shall live unto God The Third BOOK OF St. HERMAS Which is Called His SIMILITUDES The First SIMILITUDE That seeing we have no abiding City in this World we ought to look after that which is to come AND he said unto me Ye know that ye who are the Servants of the LORD live here as in a Pilgrimage For your City is far off from this City If therefore ye know your City in which ye are to dwell why do ye here buy Estates and provide your selves with Delicacies and stately Buildings and superfluous Houses For he that provides himself these things in this City do's not think of returning into his own City O foolish and doubtful and wretched Man Who understandest not that all these things are other Mens and under the Power of another For the LORD of this City saith unto thee either obey my Laws or depart out of my City What therefore shalt thou do who art subject to a Law in thine own City Canst thou for thy Estate or for any of those things which thou hast provided deny thy Law But if thou shalt deny it and wilt afterwards return into thy own City thou shalt not be received but shalt be excluded thence See therefore that like a Man in another Country thou procure no more to thy self than what is necessary and sufficient for thee and be ready that when the God or LORD of this City shall drive thee out of it thou mayst oppose his Law and go into thine own City where thou mayst with all Chearfulness live according to thine own Law without Wrong Take heed then ye that serve God and have him in your Hearts work ye the Works of God being mindful both of his Commands and of his Promises which he has promised and be assured that he will make them good unto you if ye shall keep his Commandments Instead therefore of the Possessions that ye would otherwise purchase redeem those that are in want from their Necessities as every one is able Justifie the Widows Judge the Cause of the Fatherless and spend your Riches and your Wealth in such Works as these For for this end has God enriched you that ye might fulfil these kind of Services It is much better to do this than to buy Lands or Houses because all such things shall perish with this present Time But what ye shall do for the Name of the LORD ye shall